eighty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 85 or LXXXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The eighty-five year-old woman was freed by Hamas two weeks later.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
The optimistic part is that he also predicted that science will continue to find ways to keep us healthy longer, so that more and more of those eighty-five years will be spent in good health.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2022
Between 1994 and 2001, Abramoff, who then worked as a lobbyist for a prominent law firm, paid for eighty-five members of Congress to travel to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
“Seven hundred and eighty-five shares,” Pathak said, shaking his head.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2020
“Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five? Tomorrow is the eighty-fifth day.”
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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